by admin • November 11, 2014 • Comments Off on Beijing Aims to Blunt Western Influence in China | Wall Street Journal

“It used to be that everyone thought ‘Oh, we’ll get in there, get some capitalism going, and China will flip eventually.’ Well that hasn’t happened,” said Orville Schell, director of the Center on U.S.-China Relations at the New York-based Asia Society. “Not only has it not happened, but China has demonstrably declared that it isn’t their intention or goal.”

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“Wealth and Power offers everything readers might expect from its two eminent authors. It is both sweeping and specific, authoritative and lively, sympathetic and critical, offering the perspective of both the hedgehog and the fox.”—James Fallows, national correspondent, The Atlantic

“Orville Schell and John Delury have delivered a brilliantly original and essential book: the road map to China’s quest for national salvation... Vivid, literate, and brimming with insights, Wealth and Power deserves to become a classic.”—Evan Osnos, China correspondent, The New Yorker